Entrepreneurship Is a High-Stakes Game. Know Your Odds Going In. (Infographic) A snapshot of how many businesses start every month and where they get their funding.

By Catherine Clifford

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Failure is part of entrepreneurship.

Only about a third of all new companies last a decade, according to this infographic generated Intuit, a tax preparation software company. About 6 in 10 startups last the first three years.

Despite a steep failure curve, entrepreneurship is a job-creation goliath in the U.S. economy. That's because lots of people -- almost half a million each month in 2013 -- launched their own business. And of all new jobs generated in the U.S., 70 percent come from those upstart businesses.

Related: Dreams of Being a Billionaire? Get Your Entrepreneurial Hustle On.

So, where are these millions of startups getting the cash to give entrepreneurship a go? Most of them are saving it; 90 percent of startups are bootstrapped. While venture capitalists hold a lot of weight in tech epicenters like Silicon Valley, only 1,500 startups were funded by venture capitalists in 2013, according to the infographic. Another 50,000 got financial help from an angel investors.

Have a look at the infographic below for an overview of how many Americans are starting their own businesses and how they are funding them.

And, for a bit of motivation for the big-time dreamers, there's also data on how quickly the most successful, multi-million dollar tech startups grow just before they go public.

Entrepreneurship Is a High-Stakes Game. Know Your Odds Going In. (Infographic)

Related: Everything You Need for a Winning Crowdfunding Campaign (Infographic)

Catherine Clifford

Senior Entrepreneurship Writer at CNBC

Catherine Clifford is senior entrepreneurship writer at CNBC. She was formerly a senior writer at Entrepreneur.com, the small business reporter at CNNMoney and an assistant in the New York bureau for CNN. Clifford attended Columbia University where she earned a bachelor's degree. She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. You can follow her on Twitter at @CatClifford.

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